A personal cell phone number belonging to the UK’s prime minister, Boris Johnson, has reportedly been publicly accessible online for fifteen years.  Johnson’s number was listed on a think tank press release published on the internet back in 2006 when he was the Member of Parliament for the riverside town of Henley in Buckinghamshire.  The security breach was first reported by the website Popbitch in a piece headlined ‘Hoping not to butt-dial Boris’. “It’s not as though…

DockerCon Live 2021 is almost here and it’s going to be one to remember. Our one-day, all-digital event on May 27 will be jam-packed with the application development technology, skills, tools and people you need to help solve the problems you face day to day — all for free. Designed for developers by developers, this year’s event is all about modern application delivery in a cloud-native world. At DockerCon, you’ll learn how Docker helps you…

Since ransomware’s introduction in 1989 in the form of the AIDS Trojan, also known as PS Cyborg, distributed on diskettes, ransomware has continually increased and evolved into a heinous threat to our national security, public safety, and to our economic and public health. With ransoms paid in 2020 reaching more than $300+ million, it has become a disruptive economic leach on the resources of its victims. Local governments, educational organizations, hospitals, critical infrastructure services, businesses…

A software company based in Germany has self-disclosed violating United States sanction laws by exporting American products and services to Iran. SAP SE, which is headquartered in Walldorf, admitted to carrying out thousands of export violations over a seven-year period.  After self-reporting its transgressions, the company agreed to pay combined penalties of more than $8m as part of a global resolution reached with the United States Departments of Justice (DOJ), Commerce, and Treasury.  SAP entered into…

A new Critical Infrastructure Subcommittee has been established by the Cyber Council of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA). The creation of the delegation was officially announced yesterday along with an overview of the subcommittee’s mission. The main goal of the newly formed assemblage will be to assess cyber-threats to America’s critical infrastructure and examine actions taken by the government and industry to secure the nation’s essential networks.  Privately owned infrastructure across the defense industrial base and telecommunications,…

Now that you have your Pritunl VPN server up and running, Jack Wallen shows you how to connect the client. Image: iStock/Melpomenem In a recent how-to (How to install the Pritunl VPN server on Ubuntu Server 20.04), I walked you through the process of installing the Pritunl VPN server on Ubuntu 20.04. This time around, we’re going to install the Pritunl client on Ubuntu Desktop 21.04 and connect it to the server. Of course, you…

A taskforce of security industry experts has called for tighter regulation of the cryptocurrency sector in a bid to tackle the global ransomware epidemic. Convened by the Institute for Security and Technology and trialled since last December, the Ransomware Task Force (RTF) is a team of over 60 experts from software companies, cybersecurity vendors, government agencies, non-profits, and academic institutions. Its framework document makes five key recommendations to tackle the cyber-threat. The most eye-catching of…